Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government hoped to flush six Red battalions and a headquarters company from its longtime stronghold in the mountains. Main object of the month-long operation was to destroy Viet Cong food caches and cut the Reds' main supply line, the 400-mile Ho Chi Minh trail to North Viet Nam through neutral Laos. The Reds had plainly evacuated the area in advance, but Vietnamese officials explained that they did not aim to kill Viet Cong guerrillas, only to isolate them. If successful, said one, the sweep "wall solve 50% of our military problems in the central highlands...
...crevasses and crisscrossed with cliffs that cannot be scaled. As the men struggled upward, cracks opened and little avalanches plunged down the slopes. On March 23, disaster struck: without warning, an ice wall collapsed and buried Wyoming's John Breitenbach, 27, as he was working to improve the trail. Breitenbach was the first American ever killed scaling Everest...
...United States as remained largely mute. True, the U.S. no longer tills police weapons to South Africa, and at the United Nations last fall its representative spoke against apartheid. but in that same U.N. debate it also opposed doing anything effective against apartheid, and the passage of the No-Trail Bill provoked no censure from the President, the State Department, or the U.S. Ambassador in Johannesburg...
...Laos should fall to the Reds, North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh trail (see map), the supply route which cuts through the Laotian thickets to Communist Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam, would open up, permitting the Reds to pour arms and men into that embattled land. Control of Laos' Mekong River valley would also give the Communists a highway for subversion of neighboring Cambodia and Thailand, which in turn would increase Red pressure on Burma and Malaya...
...Angeles Lakers remained alive in the National Basketball Association championship playoffs last night by edging the Boston Celtics 126 to 119. The Lakers now trail Boston three games to two in the best of seven series...